American Literature
English · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Every Second Year
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Description
This course offers an introduction to a range of American literary texts, including fiction, prose, poetry, and drama. Texts are studied in their cultural, historical, and regional contexts. Emphasis is placed on different moments and movements in American literary and cultural history, such as the Southern Gothic, Transcendentalism, Regionalism, Modernism, The Harlem Renaissance, the Beatnik Generation, and Postmodernism. Attention is paid to the roles of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexualities, nationalism, settler colonialism, and globalization.
Requisite courses
6 credit hours of First-Year English, including ENGL-1001(6) or ENGL-1000(3) [prerequisite(s)].
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and ENGL-3730.
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